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by ronaldx 12y ago
If serious: "exciting" dates, such as 5/8/13 (Fibonacci numbers), happen all the time. Randall at XKCD is mocking those who find this exciting. Further explanation: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/in
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Read what you wrote: are you talking about advertising, or are you talking about lying? Whenever advertising is lying, there is no question I am against advertising.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I don't think we differ on philosophy... clearly there are different geocoders which are competing and I am interested to know more about what you're doing. That's why I'm asking about your motivation. If you think the p
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by ronaldx 12y ago
There does not need to be a specific mechanism: Advertising industry erodes the privacy of Ethyl Smith. Bingo Card Creator supports and is supported by the advertising industry (and, in particular, corporations which encourage the erosion o
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> The built-in random() is not a good source of random numbers for scientific purposes. Unless you are going to be more specific about when it's not good, this is not generally true. Scientific purposes often includes Monte Carlo me
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> It does not follow from that that all effort at inventing a better future has to fall under the nominatim umbrella. But that is exactly what I'm asking you. To put it simply: Why does this not follow? It seems to me that it would
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Geocoding is a problem that needs to be solved well once, and open for everyone to use. Since you seem to share Nominatim's goals, why have you decided to create your own solution rather than work to improve Nominatim's weaknesses
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Agree that Nominatim is awesome. The way it handles disambiguation is thoughtful. In my opinion, it's better than any closed source competitor.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Story-telling is important for society. It teaches us how people might react to situations we are not immediately familiar with, and how to empathise with people (characters) who have a different viewpoint than our own. And, it teaches us h
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Anyone who has a modest understanding of chess can codify very simple rules for identifying a winning endgame. There are extensive wikipedia articles on what constitutes a winning endgame in chess, as the board simplifies towards the end o
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I'm trying to express why Go is a difficult problem to solve. I'm saying this (scoring, play-out) has been a difficult problem, which was not solved even a small number of years ago, and is still not considered straightforward. Ev
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by ronaldx 12y ago
One additional issue for computers is that humans don't play the game tree out to its conclusion - humans recognise winning and losing positions rather than playing a much longer (perhaps infinite) prove-out game. A naive game theory s
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by ronaldx 12y ago
It's surprising there is no comment about wrong scientific code: code which apparently does one thing, but actually doesn't, and may produce harmful results. (By "bad" code, I understand code which doesn't meet be
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> P.S. Everyone who notes "Google Analytics is easy to evade" are correct but missing the broader point -- the majority of web users will never do that. This is an important point here because it's in stark contrast with G
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I also found it surprising that Peter Eckersley would be satisfied to justify his use of Gmail in this way. Peter seems to believe that using Gmail makes his friends' privacy incrementally worse, and yet he is contributing to this prob
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The cellular network example depends on somewhere having a reliable, direct connection to the parent network. So, the need for a reliable, direct connection trumps the need for mesh networking. If you solve the problem of having a reliable,
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by ronaldx 12y ago
"Extrapolation" is not an acceptable reason to offer someone up for public shaming. If you are wrong, any number of apologies would not cover you for this: you are making a direct public attack on someone who might well be an inno
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Amazon is a company run by people. People at Amazon are not absolved of making poor ethical decisions, just because they are doing it in the name of a corporation.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I now feel dumb, since Python most often burns me with "Assignment Creates References, Not Copies".
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by ronaldx 12y ago
If you read between the lines, I'm saying negative consequences are generally a very poor excuse.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Schultz's work (as I've understood) modified tRNA to alter the genetic code[0] which converts nucleobases into amino acids. This allows for a different code compared to the one found in nature. This work, on the other hand, adds 2
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The consequences of screwing up a vegetable patch ?
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The issue I have with that observation is the underlying assumption that SEO/Google search ranking is going to make or break the business. I find that a pretty curious assumption.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I believe your observation is correct, that movies are over-rated at first, but I doubt this is wholly - nor even mainly - corruption. People who are motivated to see a movie early are the same people who are likely to enjoy that movie. Thi
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I am interested to explore this idea more. In general, I don't trust online reviews for anything because I don't know what 'normal' is or the motivations that people have for voting, as you say here. If I read any restau
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I prefer the IMdB's ratings system over, say, meta-site Rotten Tomatoes. At Rotten Tomatoes they rated Seth Rogen-vehicle "Neighbors" as 100%, last I checked. Meaning only: no reviewer at that point had said it was awful. And
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Generally in the UK, IT teachers are hired primarily for the ability to act as a sysadmin and tech support (for the whole school) - and are frequently called away to fix the principal's printer, as a facetious example. The content of h
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The stats (as they are quoted here) are just exactly what you would expect to see if you looked at early adopters. New products typically fail. If you are a consistent early adopter, you will buy a lot more failures than someone who sticks
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Quick example: "Is my password... cats6plus" does not appear to be pulled from any page(?)
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Let's not forget that Wikipedia is essentially an iteration of paper encyclopedias. Encyclopedias have been the best form of the breadth of human knowledge for 2000 years Wikipedia was not the only online/open encyclopedia, but it

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